The Democrats will never allow Roe on a national level, or if they do, it will have to be in a way that it will be easy to overturn. Why? Because it is a monumental moneymaker and vote-getter for them. The right to abortion has to be constantly in peril so that the Democrats can rally their base. They could easily have passed Roe on the …
The Democrats will never allow Roe on a national level, or if they do, it will have to be in a way that it will be easy to overturn. Why? Because it is a monumental moneymaker and vote-getter for them. The right to abortion has to be constantly in peril so that the Democrats can rally their base. They could easily have passed Roe on the national level in the first 2 years of the Obama administration when the Republicans were powerless, but they would never have dreamed of doing such a thing. I know more than a few woman who vote D solely on the abortion issue.
Abortion rights as a political moneymaker and vote-getter is important for the Democrats. Losing that issue would hurt the Democrats as much as the demise of the USSR hurt the Republicans.
"They could easily have passed Roe on the national level in the first 2 years of the Obama administration when the Republicans were powerless, but they would never have dreamed of doing such a thing."
Wouldn't it require a Constitutional Amendment? After all, that's what Roe avoided.
Get your point but from Biden on down they’ve committed to federal abortion rights. Since I think almost all states will wind up with liberal abortion laws , it’s probably close to being moot.But it’s gestural politics of an important kind and it’s an embodiment of what is an important ideological fixation. So I think if they take both houses of congress and win the white house- which is likely- they’ll go for it.
The Democrats will never allow Roe on a national level, or if they do, it will have to be in a way that it will be easy to overturn. Why? Because it is a monumental moneymaker and vote-getter for them. The right to abortion has to be constantly in peril so that the Democrats can rally their base. They could easily have passed Roe on the national level in the first 2 years of the Obama administration when the Republicans were powerless, but they would never have dreamed of doing such a thing. I know more than a few woman who vote D solely on the abortion issue.
Abortion rights as a political moneymaker and vote-getter is important for the Democrats. Losing that issue would hurt the Democrats as much as the demise of the USSR hurt the Republicans.
"They could easily have passed Roe on the national level in the first 2 years of the Obama administration when the Republicans were powerless, but they would never have dreamed of doing such a thing."
Wouldn't it require a Constitutional Amendment? After all, that's what Roe avoided.
Not necessarily but whatever they might pass might indeed lead to another round of constitutional adjudication.
Which his why they want to pack the court.
Get your point but from Biden on down they’ve committed to federal abortion rights. Since I think almost all states will wind up with liberal abortion laws , it’s probably close to being moot.But it’s gestural politics of an important kind and it’s an embodiment of what is an important ideological fixation. So I think if they take both houses of congress and win the white house- which is likely- they’ll go for it.